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Story? and why was it so important for a story to be told now? >> well, first, thanks for having us on. its been so exciting to get to share jessies story, and do so much of this with jesse here. when i read this for the first time, i found myself crying through it because what jessie did and when he did it was just so extraordinary, and as someone who relates to the simplicity of having a dream and not caring whats in your way, to do it, there was so much in niger jesses tenacity that related t...

If youre attuned to the cultural zeitgeist as im sure you are, you probably noticed a lots of stuff in the early 200s is back, low rise jeans, no thank you, disposable cameras, all making a comeback. including some people flipping out over, yes, flip phones. you get it? you know why theyre so popular? emilie ikeda does. i assume you dont have a flip phone. mine are in a trash bucket so far. who knows where they ended up. what is happening? >> did you have ha? did you get it as a problem for the ...

Wonder if you greet them cover to caliber. >> please jump in here and add to that if you would. >> you know what is amazing about that simplicity of his writings. the perfect example is a three-part series, jesus of nazareth, super profound pretty but so smart and so confident i his reasons for believing in jesus of nazareth that he didn have to make a complicated pizz when you are reading the life o jesus in this profound work, yo say, gosh, that is simple. and that is the way pope benedict rea...

Of the death, white smoke, new pope, celebratory mass. in this case instead of a months activities were just concluding about a weeks activities because we already have the next pope. >> and christopher, weve been told about the solemnity and simplicity of this funeral and how pope benedict xvi had made those decisions to have those elements reflected. what does that tell us about his personality and his approach to faith? >> well, very different than the papacy and the person of john paul ii. a...

>> chris, i was struck by amidst the obvious grandeur, the noble simplicity of it. this was a much shorter papal funeral mass than that for john paul ii. it reflected, i think, the simplicity of the faith of pope benedict. cardinal meissner, the late archbishop of cologne once said joseph ratzinger had the piety of a child making his or her first holy communion and i think that noble simplicity was obvious in this ceremony today. pope emeritus benedict will be buried in the vatican grottoes in t...

I just think that is so characteristic of benedicts all mentality, his understanding of the papacy. he never believed that the fate of the papacy. it was entirely upon him and when he felt he was into longer able to fulfill the demands, he was completely ready to step aside. i think that speaks to a man, whatever conclusion one wants to draw about his theological legacy over his policies as pope, on a personal note i can tell he was one of the kindest, gentlest, most approachable and just nicest...

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A retired pontiff. i thought, bingo, that says it. there has been a sustenance they are, presence that i think we miss already. >> ainsley: why do you think he was so beloved? >> you know, because he was the real thing, and he was a beautiful combination, ainsley, of two things that very often clash. with him, they did not. he was a towering intellect. there was a part of him that was kind of bookworm-ish. he can be very cerebral, maybe a temptation to be kind of an intellectual ivory tower. the...

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Sanctions on enough of a dramatic level before he was so deep in that the humiliation wasnt going to let it stop and that you werent going to have the simplicity of negotiations for regions of the east or mariupol to be able to make the bridge from crimea. and now it was going to be this full on assault. and here we are. okay, prior to zelenskyy, i didnt know a whole lot about zelenskyy, like a lot people until the infamous phone call. i still to this day think it was nothing to that phone call ...